Birthday Party Times Two

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

As a follow-up to last night's post, Noah threw a fit in his room for an hour last night and finally fell asleep. I went upstairs around 11-ish. I saw a bunch of stuff on Noah's floor but it was dark. I decided I'd deal with it in the morning. Unfortunately, Noah had underwear on (backwards) and he really needed his pull-up on. So I very carefully pulled Noah's underwear off and put his pull-up on. He didn't wake up but I guess that got him from a deep sleep. About fifteen minutes later, I heard Noah crying. He didn't want to tell me why he was upset so I just closed the door to his room and went back to my room. A few minutes after that, I heard banging. Noah was punching the door. I went in his room and turned on the light and then the full extent of the mess became apparent. Noah had yanked his alarm clock/CD player off of his dresser and out of the wall and thrown it onto the ground. He had pulled his lamp out of the wall and must have smacked it on something and shattered the CFC light bulb. He had thrown the DVD player that we keep in his room to keep him occupied at night on to the floor. Rachel and I cleaned up; Rachel vacuumed while I picked up things and we took everything out of his room except for the dresser and bed essentially.

This morning, however, was much better. Noah was in a very good mood as was Evan. We had two birthday parties to go to, back-to-back at the same place. One went from 10:30 to 12:30, the other from 1pm to 3pm. Noah was invited to both as well. The first party was for Evan's friend Victoria. Actually she's more of Evan's girlfriend. They spend a lot of time together at school. It's very cute. The party was at this inflatable place called Hoppin' House. Both boys had a great time running around and playing. At one point, Evan and Victoria were walking around together. Victoria had her arm around Evan and she was steering him where she wanted to go. Evan's friend Cayden yelled for him to come over to be with the "guys". Victoria wanted him to go with her. He paused trying to decide where to go. He ended up going with Victoria. I think that girl vs buddies dilemma will keep popping up in his life.

The second party was Cayden's party. They continued having fun. Ella, a girl from Noah's class, was invited to that party. Noah enjoyed seeing Ella. At one point they hugged. When did my little boys start being such ladykillers? At the end, Evan looked really tired and was really cranky. But all-in-all they had a good time.

Noah actually took a nap in his now-empty room.

For dinner, we had pizza. They had an entire extra pie at the first party which they let us take home. That saved us from having to cook tonight.

After dinner, Evan and Noah cleaned downstairs and the game room. Neither complained. They were very good.

They are supposed to be in bed but both are down here now.

Until next time...

Busy Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, Rachel got up early to go running with some other mothers. She's been doing that the last few Saturdays. This week they ran nearly 7 miles. Rachel said she felt good and actually felt like she could have gone longer.

The boys came in my room close to 9am. We came downstairs and they wanted instant oatmeal because that's what I was going to have. They both ate theirs.

At 10:30, Gabby came over. Rachel and I wanted to go out on a date this weekend and this was the time that Gabby was available. We went out and saw the movie, The Switch. Then we went to lunch using a deal we got at The Lunch Deal for Gumbo's of Lake Travis. The food was very good and it was nice to get away.

Right before we came home, we stopped at Best Buy to get a new alarm clock for our room. We have an iHome and we hate it. It constantly changes time and as of today was close to 17 minutes fast. We keep changing it back only to have it change on us. It was bright and it shone in my face while I tried to sleep. And we didn't use it for our iPod. I got an inexpensive clock because I didn't need a lot fancy features, one that wasn't too dim, and one that had multiple alarms.

We came home and Noah was napping. I was impressed that Gabby got him to sleep.

For dinner, we met a friend of mine from work at the Salt Lick. He has a little 3-year-old girl and a baby that is 5 and half months. They have picnic tables at the Salt Lick so we just made to-go orders and ate there and let the kids run around. A band was playing as well, so it was nice. Another family, a friend of theirs, also was there and they had two boys. All the kids interacted a little bit, but not too much.

For those of you who haven't gotten to experience this, Evan hums the Star Wars theme pretty much 24/7. I think it's gotten to the point he doesn't know he's doing it. But he told Rachel he wanted the Star Wars music to listen to before he goes to bed. I remembered that in college, my mom sent me the soundtrack to Star Wars. I was able to find it tonight and I put it in Evan's CD player. When we put him to bed, he was just standing right at the CD player listening to the Star Wars music. It was funny.

The boys are quiet but I doubt they are sleeping.